Blancpain GT Series: Belgian Audi Club Team WRT announces its program and driver line-ups for 2015

By Johan Laubscher

Belgian Audi Club Team WRT is gearing up for a very busy 2015 season and announced its 2015 plans and driver line-ups at its workshop on Thursday.

The WRT team is entering an army of Audi R8 LMS ultra cars in the Blancpain GT Series, four cars in the Sprint Series and three in the Endurance Series. The new 2015 factory-supported Audi R8 LMS program with WRT will also be adding one car at two selected rounds of the Blancpain Endurance Series (Monza and Paul Ricard) and at the opening VLN round, followed by a two-car entry at the Nürburgring 24 Hours and the Spa 24 Hours. In addition to its European commitments, WRT is also supporting Hitotsuyama Racing
 in the Japanese Super GT this year.

The official Belgian Audi Club Team WRT press release can be seen HERE.

The line-ups for WRT's three-car Blancpain Endurance Series and four-car Blancpain Sprint Series entries have been announced and included below, joining the factory supported 2015 Audi R8 LMS WRT driver line-ups revealed by Audi Sport earlier this week.

W Racing Team (WRT) commitments and driver line-ups for 2015: 

2015 Blancpain GT Series:

   Blancpain Endurance Series

      BES full season entries (Excluding Monza, Paul Ricard and Spa 24 Hours)
      #1 Audi R8 LMS ultra - Laurens Vanthoor, Robin Frijns and Jean-Karl Vernay
      #2 Audi R8 LMS ultra* - Stéphane Ortelli, Stéphane Richelmi and Frank Stippler
      #4 Audi R8 LMS ultra* - Laurent Pasquali, Sacha Bottemanne and Max Koebolt

      BES round 1: Monza 
      Audi R8 LMS (2015) - Nico Müller, Stéphane Ortelli and Frank Stippler
      #1 Audi R8 LMS ultra - Laurens Vanthoor, Robin Frijns and Jean-Karl Vernay
      #2 Audi R8 LMS ultra - Stéphane Richelmi, Kelvin van der Linde and TBA
      #4 Audi R8 LMS ultra - Laurent Pasquali, Sacha Bottemanne and Max Koebolt

      BES round 3: Paul Ricard
      Audi R8 LMS (2015) - René Rast, Laurens Vanthoor and Markus Winkelhock
      #1 Audi R8 LMS ultra - Robin Frijns, Jean-Karl Vernay and TBA
      #2 Audi R8 LMS ultra - Stéphane Ortelli, Stéphane Richelmi and Frank Stippler
      #4 Audi R8 LMS ultra - Laurent Pasquali, Sacha Bottemanne and Max Koebolt

      BES round 4: Spa 24 Hours
      Audi R8 LMS (2015) - René Rast, Laurens Vanthoor and Markus Winkelhock
      Audi R8 LMS (2015) - Nico Müller, Stéphane Ortelli and Frank Stippler
      Audi R8 LMS ultra - Robin Frijns, Jean-Karl Vernay and Stéphane Richelmi
      Audi R8 LMS ultra - Laurent Pasquali, Sacha Bottemanne and Max Koebolt

   Blancpain Sprint Series
   #1 Audi R8 LMS ultra - Laurens Vanthoor and Robin Frijns
   #2 Audi R8 LMS ultra - Enzo Ide and Christopher Mies
   #3 Audi R8 LMS ultra - Stéphane Ortelli and Stéphane Richelmi
   #4 Audi R8 LMS ultra - Frank Stippler and James Nash

VLN round 1:
#37 Audi R8 LMS (2015) - Christer Jöns, Nico Müller, Edward Sandström and Nicki Thiim

Nürburgring 24 Hours:
Audi R8 LMS (2015) - Christopher Mies, Nico Müller, Edward Sandström and Laurens Vanthoor
Audi R8 LMS (2015) - Christer Jöns, Pierre Kaffer, Nicki Thiim and Laurens Vanthoor

Japanese Super GT (WRT supporting Hitotsuyama Racing):
#21 Audi R8 LMS ultra - Richard Lyons, Tomonobu Fujii and Stéphane Ortelli**

*BES WRT entries #1 and #2 will alternate driver combinations during the season with the addition of the one to two new 2015 Audi R8 LMS at certain rounds.

**Stéphane Ortelli is joining Hitotsuyama Racing has the third driver for the endurance events, rounds two and five, the Fuji 500 km and the Suzuka 1000 km.

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